badlands

FREQ #30622

n. 崎岖地

发音

/ˈbæd.lændz/

别名

badland Bad Lands

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.

    地质

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

land ground soil

词源

From earlier Bad Lands, calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota Makȟóšiča (from makȟá (“land”) + o- (attributive prefix) + šíča (“bad”)).

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